Scott Bevan (born 1964 in

Newcastle, New South Wales Newcastle ( ; Awabakal: ) is a metropolitan area and the second most populated city in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It includes the Newcastle and Lake Macquarie local government areas, and is the hub of the Greater Newcastle area ...

) is an Australian TV and radio presenter, journalist and biographer.

Biography

Scott Bevan grew up near

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. In 1984 he joined the '' Newcastle Herald'' as a cadet journalist. He later worked in commercial radio as a news presenter. After a fifteen-month stint in Japan he joined the Nine Network in 1989 as a reporter. He spent time in

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working for Nine News. Bevan moved to the

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in 2005, working initially as reporter for the

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and a presenter on ABC Local Radio. In 2008 he was posted to Moscow as a correspondent for

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. In 2010, he returned to Australia to become a presenter on

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. In 2014, Bevan's biography of Australian artist Sir

William Dobell Sir William Dobell (24 September 189913 May 1970) was an Australian portrait and landscape artist of the 20th century. Dobell won the Archibald Prize, Australia's premier award for portrait artists on three occasions. The Dobell Prize is named ...

, ''Bill: The Life of William Dobell'', was published. In January 2016, Bevan resigned from the ABC to restart a music career.

References

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